Data School FOCUS
Elise-Andree Guerette
Evaluation of high-precision analytical techniques for measuring atmospheric nitrous oxide (N2O)
I am an Atmospheric Chemist who has recently joined the Major Greenhouse Gases team (GASLAB) at the Aspendale, VIC site. https://research.csiro.au/acc/capabilities/gaslab/ I started using R as part of my PhD and I was quickly hooked. Coding gives me both extreme joy and deep frustration, depending on whether my code works :) I used R throughout my postdoc and I am now keen to use my R skills in my new role.
Felicity McEnnulty
Monitoring endangered Spotted Handfish populations
I have a background in taxonomic identification of marine invertebrates and plankton. This requires working with data sets of species data and associated environmental data, spatial details and imagery. I have been involved in fieldwork using SCUBA diving to survey for introduced marine pests in Australian ports and to conduct underwater visual counts for species monitoring. I have used Excel, Access and SQL databases to manage data and have some experience in coding using Oracle to manage data and and R to produce graphs.
Geetha Perera
Screening GM canola for tolerance to aluminium
I am Geetha Perera, a Research Technician with Agriculture and Food based in Canberra. At present I am a part of the Soil Constraint research team in the Crops Program. I had no experience in R before Data School, tried to self-learn but never happened. I have been using Excel extensively to record, summarise and visualise data mostly using bar graphs. My main aim in Data School was to learn coding with R to replace the repetitive steps that I do with data sets in Excel. Data school FOCUS was a great learning experience for me and I am amazed to see how helpful R is for tidying up and visualising data which allows us seeing an in-depth picture.
Shirleen Prasad
Genetics of stress- & domestication-related traits in Bactrocera tryoni
My name is Shirleen Prasad. I am a 3rd year Macquarie University PhD student based at CSIRO. My PhD project investigates the genetic basis of reduced stress resistance in domesticated Queensland fruit flies (Q-fly), Bactrocera tryoni. Before joining Data School, I mostly used excel for data analysis and could only perform basic statistical analysis in R. Gaining competence in R through this course has given me confidence in using R independently.
Sophia Escobar-Correas
Ryegrass, a potential source of gluten-like proteins
Hello! my name is Sophia, I am a molecular biologist working in proteomics, currently a Postdoctoral fellow. Before Data School, I coded on Macro (Excel). I used to spend a lot of time cleaning and tidying protein data, I always felt like I could do it faster if I had programming skills. These weeks learning R have changed my daily work. The possible things that we could do have opened my mind to a new perspective of my research.
